This website was created in the spirit of openness; it began as a project for Anthropology on the Internet; an online course that I took several years ago at Cal-State Hayward in California. Since anthropologists study cultures, our assignment was to write a Web-essay on a culture of our choice. I chose to give voice to my culture, Virgin Islands culture, and I will do so by weaving images, sound and personal anecdotes.

In addition to this project, I'm also working on an upcoming book on African spirituality and shamanism. I'll reveal the focus of the book when I get closer to the date of publication. Meanwhile, in Children of the Baobab, I'll whet your appetite with personal experiences and profiles of personalities in African spirituality. Eventually, we'll journey to regions of spirit where the constraints of logic will never find us. Despite the destruction and the disruption of our lives and our cultures, the vision and the wisdom of the ancestors continue to sustain us in ways we seldom understand.

A veteran photojournalist and writer with more than 19 years of experience, Weeks is recipient of The Art of Living Black 2004, Jan-Hart-Schuyers Artistic Achievement Award for excellence in photography. His photographs are sought by both private and corporate collectors and were featured at the 2005 Art of Living Black Exhibition, held at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California.